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1957.30.2

ID Number: 1957.30.2
Category: Personal Artifacts
Sub-category: adornment
Item Name: wristband
Maker: J.K.
Materials: METAL, SILVER
Measurements: overall: 1.79999 cm
Description: silver; seven pieces, incomplete; mounted on plastic; beading or ribbing; some staining; surface deposits; end piece has perforation
History: JK printed on piece. John Kinzie (3 Dec. 1763 - 6 Jan. 1828): b. Quebec. Father John McKenzie, a surgeon in the British army. Mother, Anne, widow of William Haliburton, an army chaplain. McKenzie died soon after Kinzie was born; mother remarried Wm. Forsyth, who moved to Detroit and became a tavern keeper. Kinzie left his mother's household, learned to be a silversmith, received Indian name "Shaw-nee-aw-kee"; the Silver man. Around 1781 he began trading with Indians on the Maumee, at Fort Wayne (modern Defiance, Ohio). In 1796 he moved to St. Joseph River and in 1798 took his bride there (Eleanor (Little) McKillop). In 1804 he moved to mouth of Chicago River (Ft. Dearborn had been built there, 1803). Three of his four children were born there. In 1812 he returned to St. Joseph and then to Detroit; he was arrested there by the British on suspicion of American sympathies. In 1816, he moved to Chicago. In 1828 he was appointed a Justic eof the Peace (JP). A subdivision and a street in Chicago are named for him. (Dictionary of American Biography, Vol. V - NY 1961)
Collection Name: Museum Windsor
Subject (Fre): Y

Subjects

Chicago (Ill.) place

Natives subject

Trade subject

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